Scott Wykoff's Blog

Friday, August 6, 2010

Cuban Sandwich Day

Thanks to the efforts of WBAL's IT Manager George Fletcher and Director of Engineering Jeff Halapin, the sandwich made famous in Tampa has arrived in Baltimore.

The Cuban sandwich is near and dear to the heart of George, and with the help of Jeff he has shared the delight with his colleagues at the station on TV Hill.

As you can see from the video above it's pretty easy making a Cuban sandwich. That is if you have the right ingredients.

The key to a really good "Cuban" is the bread.

George knows.

Located a few miles from where George grew up visiting his grandmother in Tampa, La Segunda Central Bakery is known as the place to go to get the best Cuban bread in Florida. It's the oldest bakery in Tampa.

Jeff put in a call to the bakery in Tampa this week to order the authentic Cuban bread for the station's first-ever Cuban Sandwich Day.

The Cuban bread cost $11. It cost $60 to ship it to Baltimore!

George was able to get the rest of the Cuban sandwich ingredients around Baltimore and as they say, the rest is history.

The combination of Cuban bread, yellow mustard, salami, thin sliced pork and Swiss cheese is all topped-off with a pickle before it goes onto the red hot panini press to be toasted.

What a week it has been at WBAL. Hot Dog Day to start the week on Monday and Cuban Sandwich day to finish off the week on Friday. That's Jeff on the left and George on the right.